ACTIVE CITIES EQUAL HEALTHY ECONOMIES: SUCCESS STORIES FROM SOUTH - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

ACTIVE CITIES EQUAL HEALTHY ECONOMIES: SUCCESS STORIES FROM SOUTH BEND AND ST. PETERSBURG NLC Webinar 1.26.2016

Agenda  Setting the stage  Overview of Three Federal Efforts  Let’s Move! Cities, Towns and Counties  Mayors’ Challenge for Safer People, Safer Streets  Surgeon General’s Call to Action to Promote Walking and Walkable Communities  South Bend, Indiana  St. Petersburg, Florida  Q and A

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Better Transportation = Healthier Lives Infographic source: http://www.rwjf.org/en/culture-of-health/2012/10/better_transportatio.html

Costs to Families and Society Infographic source: http://www.rwjf.org/en/culture-of-health/2012/10/better_transportatio.html

Let’s Move! Cities, Towns and Counties  Key part of First Lady’s Let’s Move! initiative  Lead partners - National League of Cities and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services  512 cities, towns and counties participating  Local elected officials commit to 5 goals and can earn bronze, silver and gold medals in each goal

Let’s Move! Cities, Towns and Counties  Goal V: Active Kids at Play focuses on increasing access to physical activity through parks and recreation, active transportation, and joint use agreements.  All-Star Strategies encourage high- achieving cities and counties to:  Create bicycle friendly communities  Use city design guidelines  Establish or enhance slow zones  www.HealthyCommunitiesHealthyFuture.org

Mayors’ Challenge for Safer People, Safer Streets  Launched by Secretary Anthony Foxx in Jan. 2015  Based on USDOT Policy Statement on Bike-Ped Accommodations  Aims to make resources more accessible  Seven Challenge Activities  Over 240 jurisdictions to date  Awards and Summit this fall  www.transportation.gov/mayors-challenge  pedbikesafety@dot.gov

Mayors ’ Challenge for Safer People, Safer Streets  Overlap with Let’s Move! Cities, Towns and Counties and Step it Up! Call to Action  All-Stars: Bike-Friendly Community; City Design Guidelines  Call to Action: Design Communities for Walking; Promote Walking-Supportive Programs and Policies; Survey, Research and Evaluate  Transportation and Health Tool  www.transportation.gov/transportation-health-tool

STEP IT UP! The Surgeon General’s Call to Action to Promote Walking and Walkable Communities Janet E Fulton, PhD Chief, Physical Activity and Health Branch Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity

Goals of the Call to Action 1. Make walking a national priority. 2. Design communities that make it safe and easy to walk for people of all ages and abilities. 3. Promote programs and policies to support walking where people live, learn, work, and play. 4. Provide information to encourage walking and improve walkability. 5. Fill surveillance, research, and evaluation gaps related to walking and walkability.

Make walking a national priority • Encourage people to promote walking and make their communities more walkable. • Create a walking movement to make walking and walkability a national priority.

Design communities that make it safe and easy to walk for people of all ages and abilities • Design and maintain streets and sidewalks so that walking is safe and easy. • Design communities that support safe and easy places for people to walk.

Examples of Actions • Improve traffic safety • Keep places to walk free from hazards • Adopt supportive community planning, land use, development, and zoning policies & plans • Locate places within walkable distance of each other • Support safe and easy-to-use public transit systems

For More Information www.surgeongeneral.gov/stepitup

S OUTH B END : M OVING F ORWARD Pete Buttigieg Mayor, City of South Bend Robin Vida, MPH, CHES Director of Health Education, St. Joseph County Health Department

S OUTH B END , I NDIANA  Located in Northern Indiana  4 th largest City in Indiana  Located within St. Joseph County  Population size 101,190 (2014)  Bicycle Friendly Community since 2010

E CONOMICS OF HEALTH  Estimated annual health care costs of obesity- related illnesses are almost 21% of annual medical spending (US), $190 Billion  29% of Residents overweight/obese  25% of Residents are physically inactive  In Indiana, it cost on average, $1,429 more per year for an overweight/obese individual  Unhealthy workers = loss productivity, increase in health insurance cost  Even an unhealthy worker that comes to work loses productivity and costs more money  Childhood obesity accounts for $14 Billion in direct costs  About 17% of children ages 7-12 are overweight/obese

L ET ’ S M OVE C ITY -S OUTH BEND  Declared on January 15, 2014  Became the first City in Indiana, the 3 rd in the Midwest to be all-gold in July 2015

ACCOMPLISHMENTS  Key stakeholder in Early Childhood Reform Let’s Move to Childcare Grant  received in late 2015 to educate/train/enroll up to 50 sites  Walking School Bus program at local elementary schools Schools offer a walking school  bus on a weekly, bi-weekly basis  Healthy Cooking Program Will begin in early 2016,  emphasize the importance of eating at home  Prescription to Play Medical led intervention for  children, ages 5-12, at risk for overweight/obesity  Family Passport to Play Monthly free event at local  parks connecting families to nature, reducing screen time, and increasing physical activity

N EXT STEPS  Currently completing our application for Let’s Move City, Town, and County All -Stars  Focusing on 4 Key Strategies  Bicycle Friendly Community  Slow Zones  Business Recognition Program  Community Gardens/Urban Agriculture

T HE M AYORS C HALLENGE  In March 2015, became one of the over 200 cities to accept the call-to-action from the Department of Transportation  Focusing on 5 of the Challenge Activities  Taking a Complete Streets Approach  Identifying & Addressing Barriers to Make Streets Safe and Convenient for all Users  Gathering Bike & Walking Data  Improving Regulations and Policies  Educate & Enforce Proper Road Use Behavior

A CCOMPLISHMENTS & N EXT STEPS  Action team was formed early in March 2015  Community Summit was hosted in August 2015  Complete Streets Policy was passed and signed in November 2015  Robust education plan and website currently under development

W HY N OW ?  City of South Bend at a pivoting point of economic development and revitalization  Smart Streets Initiative  A compete streets oriented public process that includes conversion of over 6 miles of arterial streets from 1 to 2 way and the reconfiguration of neighborhood commercial corridors resulting in safer accommodations and connections for pedestrians and cyclists.  Has secure $100 million in downtown investment  Regional Cities Initiative & Award  $42 million among the 3 applicant areas

C ONTACT  Mayor Pete Buttigieg  mayorpete@southbendin.gov  (574) 235-9261  www.southbendin.gov  Robin Vida, MPH, CHES  rmeleski@co.st-joseph.in.us  (574) 245-6749  www.sjchd.org

THE SUN SHINES ON AN ACTIVE AND HEALTHY ST. PETE Integrating Transportation and Public Health for Success Mayor Rick Kriseman and Deputy Mayor Dr. KanikaTomalin January 26, 2016

ST. PETERSBURG, FLORIDA THE SUNSHINE CITY Located on a peninsula between the Gulf of Mexico and Tampa Bay in west central Florida Sunshine City with an average of 360 days of sunshine annually Total City Population - 256,681 Total Households - 108,815 Total MSA Population - 2,934,941 Median Age - 42.1 More than 900 events bring over 10 million people each year

ST. PETERSBURG, FLORIDA THE SUNSHINE CITY #1 Best City for Millennial Job Seekers (NerdWallet, 2015) #1 Town in America for Craft Lovers (American Craft Week, 2015) One of the “Most Outstanding Places” (Forbes Travel Guide, 2014) One of America’s Most Affordable Metros (Forbes 2014) #2 Most Beautiful City in the USA (The Culture Trip, 2015) #6 Most Underrated City in the US (BuzzFeed, 2015) #8 Best City for Hispanic Entrepreneurs (WalletHub 2014) #12 in the Nation for Small Businesses (Biz2Credit, 2014) American Heart Association, Fit Friendly Workplace, Gold Medal (2015) Florida’s Healthiest Weight Community Champion (2014)

ST. PETERSBURG CITY VISION “St . Petersburg will be a city of opportunity where the sun shines on all who come to live, work and play. We will be an innovative, creative and competitive community that honors our past while pursuing our future .” - Mayor Rick Kriseman and Deputy Mayor Dr. Kanika Tomalin

HEALTHY INITIATIVES THAT ADVANCE CITY VISION  Healthy St. Pete  CityTrails Bicycle and Pedestrian Program/Active Transportation